Railway-car



T. ELLIOTT.

RAILWAY CAR.

APPLICATION man APR-2|, 1921.

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RAILWAY CAR.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 21. 1921.

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RAILWAY CAR.

APPLICATION FILED "11.21

Patented Deml, 1921.

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HTTORNEYS- THOMAS ELLIOTT, T GINCXNNATL OHIO, ASSIGNOH. T0 Eli-IE CINCINNATI CAR COM- PANY, 0F Clll l'fililiflt'ltfil, 051159, A. QOF/PQF'ATIQN OF OHIO.

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1 399 755 Specification of Letters Patent. P m t y D 13 1921 Application filed April 21, 1921. Serial No. 463,315.

To all who it ay ca r trance being at opposite sides on the same Be it known that l, Ti-roiras Flrriro'rtr, a end and likewise the word Exit at opposite citizen of the United States, residing at Cinsideson the same end.

cinnati, in the county ofllamilton and Eitate And in those cases, such as illustrated of Ohio, have invented certain new and useherein, where the cars have double doorways,

ful Improvements in ltailway-Uars,of which thatis, very wide doorways occupied by a the following is aspecification, reference hepair of doors, then while the word Ed ing had therein to the accompanying drawtrance will be associated with a part of such i i doorway, the word Exit will he associated This invention relates to double-ended one with the other part, so that such wide doorman railway cars, particularly of the class way may be used both for entrance and exit, used on lines, one terminal of which is in if desired, but in such case only one such the crowded or congested part of the city door may be opened at a time, say the one and the other terminal in a suburban or less under Entrance or the one under Exit, congested or crowded district. according to circumstances.

In my application filed March 21st, 1921, in the accompanying drawings, Ser. No. 454E930, i set forth and claim a one Figure 1 is a side elevation of a car emman double-ended or two way car to he used bodying my invention; under the aforesaid conditions with a double Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof; system of signs and doorway controls or Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of the gates and doors for the doorways arranged upper portion of a car looking at the inside and operated ina manner to permit of one of that side shown in Fig. 1; side of the car being used on the system of Fig. 4.- is a side elevation of the opposite pay as you. enter, as when leaving a subside of the car to that shown in 1 urban district or locality where. the traffic is Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the upper part uncongested and scarce, and to permit the of a car looking at the 1ns1de of that side other side of the car to he used as a pay shown in Fig. 4t; 30 as you leave, car, aswhen the car leaves a Fig. 6 is a detail enlarged sectional view terminal where conditions of traffic are through that portion of the car on which the crowded. signs are placed above the doorway;

in my present invention. i do away with Fig. 7 is a plan view in the nature of a the feature of mechanism to operate or diagram showing; the arrangement of the 5 change and set the signs, and instead ll comdoor-operating mechanism. bine with the other features of doorways, i will first describe my invention with doorway controls or gates, and doors, signs reference to its use on cars on the pay as which are stationary or fixed in the sense yo nt r yst m, nd W111 then l t et that when they are once placed in their ref rth it e on the pay as you leave spective positions, as by hand, or by painting y tem, and. will finally refer in detail to the them, they will function without adjustment arrangement of the mechanism employed 1n dlll'lIlg the use Of the C211 lll receiving and carrying out the use of cars on both of these lettino off assenqers. f i l s stems.

To these ends l employ what 1 term staa shown in Fig. 1, the car is to be used tionary signs over or near the doorways, on the pay as you enter system and it both outside and inside of the car, as the will be assumed. that it 1S in a suburban or words entrance and exit, and this i do uncrowded district and is about to make a in this wise-over the front doorway for the trip to a city terminal, the right hand end, admission of passengers 1 place the legend as shown in Fig. 1, being new the front end Entrance and over the rear doorway for of the car. @ver the double doorway 1 conflf parture of passengers the legend trolled byddopfi rsi ancki alpe tit le wordls Xit and v1ce versa on the other side or trace an ill t -e 0 er en 0 e the ,21 i i g jin gg Eu canovilar Ellie sn gle gporwaylt cntpolledwply trance an tie wore *Xl' W1 a anear on a sing e nor o is e worc X1 e both sides, the positions of the. wdr l llnsame legends appear also on the inside of that side of the car, From Fig. 6 it will sign board or surface outside legends as indicated in Fig. 8. be seen that an outer 6 is provided for the while a panel 7 affords a surface for the display of the inside legends.

Looking at Fig. 2 it will be seen that a motormans stand is indicated at A and a fare box at B at what is now the forward end of the car, while at the other end, which on the return trip will be the forward end, a

motormans stand is indicated at C vand a,

fare box at D.

When passengers are to board the carin a suburban or uncrowded district they. will do so under the legend Entrance which will be open to them by the opening of the door 2 by the motorman, through mechanism to hereinafter appear. As conditions here are not crowded and the passengers are not pressed for time and space, they will deposit their fare, under the observation of the motorman, in the fare box B and will then take their seats. Later when they are to leave the car they will do so under the word Exit at the rear, for which purpose the motorman will open the door 5. The doorway controls, generally indicated at 8, are now set with their arms projecting outward inviting the passengers to push them aside and pass out. These arms will yield outward when set in the position shown in Fig. 2 and will return to their normal position because they are spring mounted. The construction of these controls is fully set forth and described in my copending application filed March 21st, 1921, Ser. No. 454,031.

Under some conditions, as when the car is very much crowded and it is desired to have the passengers exit more rapidly, the doorway 3 under the legend Exit may be opened at the same time as the door 5 at the other end.

And now let it be assumed that allthe passengers have left'the car and that it is in a crowded or congested district or terminal and is about to be boarded by passengers. Under these conditions the pa as you leave system will be employed. The front of the car will now be that shown at the left in Fig. 2 and the side of entrance will be the upper sideshown in Fig. 2, which in Fig. i is illustrated in elevation.

As conditions are crowded, the door 9 of the double doorway 10 will be opened under the word Entrance, the door 11 under the legend Exit not being now employed. And the door 12 in the doorway 13 under the legend Entrance will also be opened. In this way passengers will hasten in from both ends of the car without paying their fares. hen, however, they are to leave'the car and as they do so from time to time which avoids crowding, the door 11 will be opened for them by the motorman and they will pass out under the legend Exit, which, of course, appears on the inside as well as the out. As they do so they will pay their fares in the fare box D under the observation of the motorman who now is at station C.

As the doorway controls or gates 14 stands with their arms in a position to open inward, these arms were readily swung aside by the passengers as they entered when the door 12 was opened to them, as above stated. It is observable at this point that as the doorway 4: with its door 5 under the word Exit is always a means of exit, therefore the control arms or gates bow outward, while as the doorway 13 with its door 12 is always for entrance the control arms or gates always bow inward.

Thus it will be seen that I have provided a double-ended one-man car in which the leg ends indicating entrance and exit are fixed in the sense of being so arranged and assigned to the respective doorways and pertions thereof, (in the case of double doorways) entrance and exit and as well when the car is leaving suburban or uncrowded district and departed from in congested terminals or sections, and vice versa, as when boarded in crowded sections. And also that by reason of the controls the passengers are prevented from accidentally or purposely starting or attempting to pass out of a doorway which is for entrance, as at ll, or in a doorway which is for exit, as at 8, should it happen, by design or accident, that the doors at such doorways are open, momentarily or otherwise.

And it will also be observed that not only are these facilities afi'orded whereby a one man car may be utilized as a double ended car, but that the passengers are also a tlorded the most explicit and conspicuous instruetion as to the course they are to take in boarding and leaving the car, whereby rapid loading is made possible in congested districts with payment as the passengers leave, and whereby passengers board the car in uncrowded districts, paying their fare as they do so.

Referring now to one form of mechanism for operating the doors, I would call attention to Fig. 7, a detail description of which is as follows An air pressure tank 15 connects by a pipe 16 a cross branch 17, a valve 18 and pipes 19 and 20 with an air engine 21 whose piston (not shown) operates a crank arm 22 to which are connected a pitman 23 attached to a crank arm 2% connected with the door 2; and to a pitman 25 connected by a crank arm 26 with the door 3.

By turning the handle of the valve 18 to a position near the word Open air will be admitted from the tank15 to the engine 21 as to direct the passengers both for and the doors 2 and 3 will be opened. By turning the valve handle to the position indicated by the word Close air will be admitted to the other end of the engine 21 and the doors 2 and 3 will be closed.

Standing at or near the same place the motorman may open and close the door 5 on the same side of the car by turning the handie of the valve 27 to a' position near the word Open when the air will pass from the branch pipe 17 through the valve and through the pipe 28 into the engine 29 and operate the contained piston to swing the crank 39 and through the pitman rod 31 actuate the cranlr arm 32 connected with the door 5 and open the door. By swinging the handle of the valve 27 to near the word Close the air will pass through the pipe 33 and enter the other end of the engine 29 and close the door 5.

Now to open and control the doors 9, l1 and 1 on the other side of the car when the motorman is standing at the left hand end, as viewed in Fig. 7, he will turn the handle of the valve 3 L near the point marked Upon when air will flow from the tank 15 through the pipe 35, the branch pipe 36, the valve 34 and the pipe 37 into the engine 38 which will actuate the piston to turn the crank arm 39 and push on the rod 40 which through the arm d will open the door 11 and likewise push on the rod 42 which through the arm 41 will open the door 9.

When the handle or the valve 34 is turned to the position indicated by the word lose the air will pass from the valve 34 through the pipe let and into the engine 38 and thereby close the doors 9 and 11. To operate the remote door 12 the motorman will turn the handle of the valve 4:5, to the point indicated by the word Open which will cause air to flow through the pipe 46 to the engine 47 to actuate the piston to move the crank 48 and push the rod 49, which through the arm 50 will open the door 12.

To close this door the motorman will present the handle or the valve near the point indicated by the word Close which will permit the air to pass through the pipe 51 to the other end of the engine l? and cause the piston and crank arm 48 to pull on the rod a9 and through the arm close the door 12.

The mechanism. here described for these several purposes is illustrative only and, while perfectly feasible, may be modified or be dispensed with and other mechanism employed for like purposes. Again, it will be noted, that while this conventional door op erating mechanism here described will open and close the pair oi doors in each wide doorway, still this operating mechanism may be modified so as to open and close but one of said double doors at a time.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new and desire to secure by letters patent, is

1. double ended one-man car having front and rear doorways at each side thereot, and signs for said doorways, the signs on one side comprising an entrance lege d one doorway an d an exit legend at other doorway, and th on the other side comprising an exit legend at one doorway and an entrance legend at the other, so that such car may he used on the pay as you enter system when the entrance legend is at the front doorway and the exit legend at the rear door way or on the pay as you leave system when the entrance legend is at the rear doorway and the exit legend at the front doorway.

2. A double-ended one-man car having front and rear doorways at each side thereof, and signs for said doorways, the signs on one side comprising an entrance legend at one doorway and an exit legend the other doorway, and the signs on the other side comprising an exit legend at one doorway and an entrance legend at the other, so that such car may be used on the pay as you enter system when the entrance legend is at the front doorway and the exit legend at the rear doorway or on the pay as you leave system when the entrance legend is at the rear door way and the exit legend at the trout doorway, doors lior said doorways, a doorway control for one door on each side, and operating mechanism for said doors.

3. A double-ended one-man car having front and rear doorways on each side, one doorway on each side being double and the other single, an entrance and an exit legend for the double doorway on one side and an exit legend for the single doorway on the same side, and an exit and entrance legend for the double doorway on the other side and an entrance legend for the single doorway on that side so that such car may be used on the pay as you enter system when the entrance and exit legends are at the front double doorway and the exit legend at the rear single doorway or on the pay as you leave system when the exit and entrance legends are at the front double doorway and the entrance legend at the single rear doorway.

4:. A double-ended one-man car having front and rear doorways on each side, one doorway on each side being double and the other single, an entrance and an exit legend for the double doorway on one side and an exit legend for the single doorway on the same side, and an exit and entrance legend for the double doorway on the other side and an entrance legend for the single doorway on that side so that such car may be used on the pay as you enter system when the en trance and exit legends are at the front double doorway and the exit legends at the rear single doorway or on the pay as you leave system when the exit and entrance legends are at the front double doors way and the entrance legend at the rear single doorway, doors for said doorways, a doorway control for one doorway on each side, and operating mechanism for said doors.

5. A double-ended one-man car having on opposite sides at diagonal positions double doorways, each doorway having sign legends for entrance and exit and on each side single doorways at opposite diagonal points, one of said latter doorways having the legend Exit and the other the legend Entrancej doors for said doorways, and doorway controls for said single doorways, one control opening outward and the other inward.

In testimony whereof, I atiix my signature.

THOMAS ELLIOTT. 

